Perspectives in Marxist anthropology
By: Maurice Godelier ; translated by Robert Brain.
Series: Cambridge studies in social anthropology ;; 18
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1977
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Marxist anthropology.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Translation of some of the essays from the author's Horizon, trajets marxistes en anthropologie.
Table of contents: title: Structural causality in economics and some ideas concerning Marxism and anthropology: Anthropology and economics. The concept of social and economic formation. The concept of the tribe.; title: Dead sections and living ideas in Marx's thinking on primitive society: An attempt at a critical evaluation.; title: Money and its fetishes: Salt money and the circulation of commodities among the Baruya of New Guinea. Market economy and fetishism, magic, and science according to Marx's Capital.; title: The phantasmatic nature of social relations: Fetishism, religion and Marx's general theories concerning ideology. The non-correspondence between form and content in social relations. The visible and the invisible among the Baruya of New Guinea. Myth and history.